Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pink Industry played on , rather ineffectively as it happened . |
| 2 | They were grand boys and so courageous … maybe too much so as it turned out . |
| 3 | But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic . |
| 4 | When no specific instructions are given to candidates about the layout of assignments , any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it followed consistently . |
| 5 | When no specific instructions are given to candidates about the layout of assignments , any recognised style of layout will be acceptable to the Examiners , so long as it followed consistently . |
| 6 | I explained that the meeting could elect anything it wished so long as it understood that the ‘ original organisers , … would make up their own minds what status , if any , to accord those elected . |
| 7 | It explained everything , though she fought it , fought the nightmare truth of her growing feelings for him , her respect , her admiration , her jealousy , her pain , her longing to make him feel something for her , anything , so long as it came from the heart and not the body … |
| 8 | I wanted our collaboration , strange as it was , to continue for eve ; , just so long as it kept him beside me . |
| 9 | Dansey did not seek to influence its policy , so long as it kept out of his agents ' way . |
| 10 | The Bike Sub-Committee was still being urged to proceed , yet a month later the subject was adjourned , only to be urged on again the month following — ‘ so long as it had a corrugated iron roof ’ , presumably a financial stringency to keep the cost down to £15 . |
| 11 | So long as it had appeared to be an alternative force to the Labour party , he kept clear . |
| 12 | So long as the House was not bound by strict party ties and so long as it had control of the major part of its own timetable , the general task of commenting on and questioning government policy was relatively simple . |
| 13 | Why not go along with Luke 's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink ? |
| 14 | Writing a doctorate on the British response to the church conflict in Nazi Germany , I was well aware that Dietrich Bonhoeffer had refused to grant that the established national Protestant Church was in fact a Christian church so long as it refused to ordain people who were racially Jewish . |
| 15 | His head was cut off , buried on Tower Hill facing France in the belief that so long as it remained there , Britain would be safe from invasion . |
| 16 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 17 | There could , indeed , be no two opinions as to the right of every one of the great national subdivisions of Europe to dispose of itself , independently of its neighbours in all internal matters , so long as it did not encroach upon the liberty of others . |
| 18 | It matters not how strong the persuasion was , so long as it did not overbear the independence of the patient 's decision . |
| 19 | Any word could follow any other word , just so long as it matched the phonetic input description . |
| 20 | The life they had come to know so well for so long as it slipped by changelessly would be irrevocably altered : it was like a death or a wounding and brought all the wonder and fear and awe of change . |
| 21 | Furthermore , while it may well be correct to say that the implied licence doctrine ( so long as it survived ) itself involved the " adaptation " of the literal application of the statutory provisions " to meet one special type of case " , I do not think it correct that the [ old ] decisions … authorise or justify an application of the statutory provisions otherwise than in accordance with their ordinary and natural meaning … |
| 22 | So long as it invested the money in buses , that was all right . |
| 23 | Earlier this spring , the Society , which had closed its galleries and ended all public programmes , announced that it would close its library and shut down entirely unless it received emergency public funds . |
| 24 | Later , legs and a handle were added to convert the vessel into a sauce-boat , perhaps long after it had been made obsolete as a feeding vessel by the introduction of the first feeding bottles . |
| 25 | Women who entered voluntary work during the inter-war years did so largely because it provided them with a diversion from household routine . |
| 26 | But another union blames bad management on Dowty 's part , and says Dowty Fuel Sytems would have shut down anyway if it had n't been sold . |
| 27 | The complex of disparate elements comprising academic English was always unstable , though they might have stayed together longer if it had not been for the demands of the academic environment . |
| 28 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation , and I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation — in the bottom streams in particular — who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school . |
| 29 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends , and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation . |
| 30 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends , and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation . |